We represent construction, mining and telecommunication companies in cases relating to contracts of construction, mining, infrastructure diffusion, telecommunication and aviation. We help parties to transact about potential and existing disputes in any of those sectors and in case of failure of compromise, our clients' interests are well defended before courts.
With our advocates specialized in criminal law and experienced in criminal procedures, we follow up all criminal cases from the first early step, before the judicial police (Rwanda Investigation Bureau/RIB), the prosecution and assist clients before first instance courts to the last competent jurisdiction. This involves also visiting regularly our detained clients in different detention centres/prisons to make them aware of how far their cases have reached and requesting for them dates of trial in the different jurisdictions. We also make sure that our clients legal rights are respected by all judicial organs.
As opposed to criminal litigations where repression is the main purpose of the procedures, civil litigations are aimed at recovering monetary benefits offended during transactions between different people. We have expertise in dealing with contractual and quasicontractual litigations. We represent/assist litigants before courts in proceedings relating to contractual obligations, tort liability and extracontractual obligations like management of other person's affairs by which the Court's determination of an obligation of one party to another is requested where no actual contract exists between them.
We have well trained and experienced Family Lawyers helping litigants to solve family-related disputes like marriage related litigations, matrimonial regimes, divorce, adoption, civil status documents, donations, successions, etc. We have a team specialized in family mediation helping different family members to have an understanding before cases go out for courts. We focus to reunite families and have their disputes solved in a win win situation to keep the family relationships.
We represent/assist before courts and other decision making organs victims of infringements on constitutional provisions and human rights. We have an agreement with the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) to handle human rights cases assigned to the Law Firm by the Commission.
The Law Firm represents land and property owners in cases brought before courts or other organs aimed at protecting their rights over land or other immovable properties. We assist parties for any disputes relating to various forms of ownership and tenancy in real property.
We handle all taxation law related cases for small, large businesses and corporations. We follow up all tax law compliance matters for the company and assist/represent them before tax authorities (RRA) for different tax procedures and before courts where cases are brought to courts for determination by or against our clients
We assist / represent our clients during settlement of disputes relating to violation of their IP rights before all organs of dispute settlement or claims against alleged violation of others' intellectual property and technological rights. We help to handle cases before administrative organs on different notices relating to IT rights, and all cases before courts of law and related damages. We warranty integral representation
With our Attorneys specialized in insurance law, we handle all cases relating to responsibilities resulting from insurance contracts and injuries caused by insured parties. We also represent clients during negotiation and conclusion of insurance policies. This covers many segments including but not limited to Life Insurance, road traffic Accidents, Cargo and Services Insurance, Travel Insurance, etc.
At our Law Firm, we have expertise in business and commercial law which are two areas of legal practice that have so many overlapping issues requiring knowledge and experience. We represent /assist clients before commercial courts at all levels in disputes relating to commercial transactions. We ensure fully integrated legal representation that guarantees sustainability of the business of different players serviced by our law firm.
We assist and represent our clients in dispute resolution process in which an independent third party (mediator and conciliator) helps disputants to settle a conflict in a mutually acceptable fashion and avoid to further go to binding mechanisms of dispute settlement. With this process, we ensure that relationships between disputing parties are not affected as the process aims at settling the dispute while safeguarding mutual understanding and long term relationship/friendship of the parties.
We represent clients in procedures of adjudication which is the legal process by which an appointed expert reviews evidences and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved. This procedure is most popular in construction and infrastructure litigations where parties want someone who understands the matter at hand and determines what should be done by each of the disputing parties.
For different matters in different domains of law submitted to us by clients, we provide written legal opinions in which we analyze facts pertaining the cases, extract legal issues requiring attention, provide legal sources that may help to motivate the case and finally provide our legal opinion to clients. Many clients have appreciated our contribution that helped them to take informed decisions with all necessary legal benchmarks.
For existing cases or newly projects to be initiated by the clients, we hold consultation meetings with clients aimed at assessing the proposed way of doing something, and provide legal advice on what should be done at any stage to avoid violation of laws that may lead to troubles. For a better client’s legal orientation, we deploy an experienced lawyer in the domain of the client’s interest.
Our Intellectual Property department help clients to register and protect their trade secrets considered in a general sense, as confidential information that has commercial value. Upon registration, any user has to be authorized by the owner of the secret.
We help clients in protection of their Copyright in a form of legal protection granted to the authors of original creative works. Under this domain, we cover a number of subject matters, including literary works, musical works, dramatic works, pantomimes and choreographic works, architectural works, pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, motion pictures and other audio-visual works, Sound recordings and Computer programs.
With trademarks, we help clients in registration and protection of a word, phrase, symbol or design or a combination of any of these that serves to identify and distinguish a specific product or service from others in the marketplace.
We support clients in registering and protecting their Geographical indications (or GIs, as they are commonly called) treated as a subset of trademarks in some jurisdictions. This enables business actors to identify a good or service as originating in a place, region, or locality where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of the good is essentially attributable to its geographic origin.
Technological and software creations are utmost sources of welfare but if they are let for free use, owners will not have any consideration or counterpart of their efforts and knowledge. At our Law Firm, the IPT Department helps Software creators to register and protect their rights for making money.
With patents, we help the clients in approaching the Government requesting grant of a property right that permits an inventor to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing their inventions. Many inventors have made much wealth not only because they invented something but also because they had been able to exclude all others from misusing their rights.
We assist clients in their electronic commercial transactions by playing an intermediary role in dealing with their business counterpart that is in a distance restricting them from holding regular meetings or physically meet to conduct some transactions. We follow up execution of electronic orders and help in solving possible legal disputes.
The emergence of internet and technology of a business tool gave rise to cyber law to regulate related transactions. Our Intellectual Property and Technology department master different aspects of cyber transactions and helps clients to avoid risks of cyber criminals and loss generated by cyber transactions.
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